Pavel Zibrov is a professional musician, pop singer, songwriter, teacher and talented composer. A rural boy-double bassist who managed to achieve the title of People's Artist at the age of 30.
His hallmark was a velvety voice and a luxurious thick mustache.
Pavel Zibrov is a whole era. He has been on stage for more than 40 years, but still remains interesting, in demand and very successful in modern show business.
A well-known womanizer, ladies' man and the most devoted admirer of the beautiful half of humanity, the artist heads the "Party of Women Lovers".
Its audience is not only middle-aged ladies, but also young people. The star baritone is the author of dozens of songs and albums. Now the performer leads his vlog on YouTube. He is an active visitor to social events, always interesting, incendiary and fashionable.
The phenomenon of Pavel Zibrov lies in his sincerity, natural inner and outer beauty, as well as in talent from God, mother and Ukrainian land, - this is how the poet Yuriy Ribchinsky says about the performer.
Childhood and youth of Pavel Zibrov
Pavel Zibrov was born on June 22, 1957 in the village of. Chervonoe, Nemirovsky district, Vinnitsa region, in the family of a worker and a teacher. The parents of the future singer met in the post-war years.
Zibrov's father was a paratrooper, was twice captured, but was able to escape. When he reached the village, he met a girl who eventually became his wife. The couple raised two sons - the eldest Vladimir (b. 1954) and the youngest - Pavel.
In the family, the boy was instilled with a love of music from childhood - his mother played the guitar and sang beautifully, his father masterfully owned the balalaika, his older brother Vladimir pleased him with playing the button accordion, and little Pasha played the tambourine and whistle. Later he also mastered the button accordion.
The family often arranged a home theater, for which my father built a small stage, and my mother sewed costumes. With the whole family, they performed not only at home, but also at various holidays in their village.
In order for Vladimir to be able to study music, his mother had to take him to a teacher 30 km away, in the district center of Gaisin. Pavel was more fortunate - when it came time to enter a music school, a teacher came to his village, from whom he took classes twice a week.
The first two classes of high school, the future musician studied in the village. Chervonoe.
Then the mother took the boy to Kyiv, where he was accepted out of the competition to the musical special boarding school named after. N. Lysenko for talented children. At first he studied in the cello class, and later was transferred to the double bass.
The creative path of Pavel Zibrov
Music school teachers instilled in the future star a love for classical music - Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky.
Teen love for the Beatles and Chicago was stronger at the time. They inspired Pavel and his ninth grade friends to create their own vocal and instrumental ensemble (VIA Yavir). Since the stage was banned at school, the guys went to the basements to play their favorite music.
The guys approached the creation of the team very responsibly, in addition to the standard composition of the VIA: keyboards, guitar, drums, a violin and wind instruments were also organized. The group performed only those works that were written by the participants themselves. They also did their own arrangements.
Soon the guys began to perform on dance floors. At that time, the stage of the House of Creativity of the aircraft factory was considered the most prestigious of them, and the right to play there still had to be obtained. The team easily won the tender, and soon the musicians were already "blowing up" the dance floor for 1000 people on weekends.
The popularity of the ensemble began to increase. The musicians became well known far beyond the Kyiv region, they equally successfully played on other dance floors, and in pioneer camps, and at weddings.
In 1975, the group took part in the Republican Komsomol song contest in Kerch and took 4th place. With the end of training, the guys went home, the team broke up.
Soon Pavel Zibrov became a student at the Kharkov Conservatory. He studied in the double bass class, and in his free time he worked part-time, speaking at weddings and in restaurants.
However, his soul called him to Kyiv, and soon he transferred to the Kyiv Conservatory, where fate brought him to his first true love and future wife, Tatyana. A year later, the young people got married.
Artist career
Zibrov began his career as a choirmaster at the Institute for Nuclear Research, then led the female vocal ensemble at the Kiyanka.
He also played in the October Palace of Culture in the orchestra at the Gorlitsa dance ensemble. Since 1979, Zibrov also began working in the State Variety Symphony Orchestra.
Life was in full swing: during the day - lectures at the conservatory, institute, orchestra, at night - writing songs and arranging them. The dynamic rhythm could not but affect the family - it, alas, broke up. From his first marriage, Zibrov has a son, Sergei.
When the artist graduated from the conservatory (at the age of 23), he was drafted into the army. It had everything: the ensemble, and unauthorized dismissal, and Afghanistan (1981).
After the army, he continued to work in a pop-symphony orchestra. Having decided to take up vocals professionally, Zibrov took lessons from opera singer Viktor Nikolaevich Kurin. At the age of 30, he again entered the conservatory in the vocal department.
The first fruits of his solo career were not long in coming - Zibrov became the winner of the New Names radio contest. Then 4th place at the all-Union competition "New Names" in Moscow.
After that, he was expected to perform at the evening in memory of Yuri Gulyaev, later - a concert in the Hall of Columns of the House of the Union.
The stunning success in Moscow opened all the doors for Zibrov. He began to write songs that were actively played on the radio. Soon he became a soloist of the Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra.
Since 1994, the singer has directed the Pavel Zibrov Song Theater. Under him, the Khreschaty Yar group appeared. In 1993, Zibrov received the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine, and in 1996 - People's Artist of Ukraine.
The personal life of an artist
In 1992, Pavel Zibrov met his future wife Marina, who then held the position of adviser on foreign economic relations. The couple had a daughter, Diana. Today, Marina Zibrova, as well as the artist's brother, Vladimir, work in his theater.
